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    Pyrtle Community Women

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    2009
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/92011
    Description
    Thirteen African American women standing in front of a canning house. Most are dressed in all white, with white caps, and the others are dressed in floral print dresses.
    Pyrtle Community Women, Kilgore, Texas. These club women have had built a modern canning house of new lumber, corrugated roofing, three ventilators, concrete floor, brick furnace, stationed and movable tables, and screens at a cost of $317.50. The club has one hotel-sized canner, one Burpee sealer, and a membership of thirty-five women and twenty-nine girls
    The cannery is able to provide canned food for fifty members' families in the community. Plans for the canning house were furnished by the Prairie View Extension Department. The farmers, assisted by County Agent H.L. Brown and Albert Coss, principal of the Pyrtle School.
    Although some of the descriptions of photographs in this collection have been altered for clarity, a majority of the descriptions are transcribed verbatim from the back of the photographs and reflect the language of those times.
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    Kilgore (USA, Texas)
    Brown, H.L.
    Coss, Albert
    Pyrtle School
    Pyrtle Community Women
    Kilgore (USA, Texas)
    Prairie View Extension Department
    Agriculture
    Group portraits
    Canneries
    Cannery workers
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    • Toward a Better Living: African American Farming Communities in Mid-Century Texas
    Citation
    (1950). Pyrtle Community Women. Physical: Agricultural Communications and Journalism Program, Texas A&M University; Digital: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, <a href="mailto:cushing-library@tamu.edu">Email</a>, Phone: 979-845-1951, <a href="http://cushing.library.tamu.edu/">Website</a>. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92011.

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